Trying ... well if you can call it that, I guess.

[7 Year Itch]

Her comments were interesting to me... that it was "good to have me back". I quizzed her more on her comments yesterday and she confirmed what I was "hoping" was happening to me... that the ADs are working. The old "me" is starting to re-appear. I finally confessed what I've been hiding for the last 4 years... which was the depression I should have sought help for a long, long time ago. She said it explained a lot of what she couldn't figure out with me... why I'd go into hibernation mode etc.

Abbey

I can so identify with you. I too just realized after getting on AD's 2 months ago, that I was in a depression (probably started as post partum, and then increased as big life stuff we've had in the last 2 years happened). Like you my H I don't think fully gets it. He still sees me so sad and crying over our separation etc, yet I'm so much better. But it's about how I feel, it's not necessarily something I can show him right now. AD's aren't "happy pills", you still feel, it just puts things in a more rational perspective. And I realize now how I felt the last 2 1/2 years was NOT normal, and very much a depression.

I too pray that at some point H will see the change, and start viewing that 2 1/2 years as a moment in our marriage, and not define our entire 12 years by it. Hang in there.

Chris